LEXINGTON, VA – The 11^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's tennis team took down host Washington & Lee, 7-2, on Sunday morning to improve to 4-0 on the season.
 
Graduate student Mason Liu and sophomore Marco Azar took the first point of the match with an 8-5 win over Connor Coleman and James Kurani at third doubles. Will Kistler and Eli Hirshberg then tied the match when they beat junior Daniel Ardila and graduate student Joe DeMarco 8-5 at second. Juniors James and Thomas Yu put the Blue Jays back on top with an 8-7 (2) win over Evan Brady and Evan Erb in a battle of top-15 doubles teams.
 
Liu put Hopkins up 3-1 with an easy win at third singles as he lost just one game in a win over Brady. Freshman Pranav Gadiraju then defeated Kurani 6-3, 6-3 at fifth. Senior Andrew Tran clinched the victory when he beat Rider Yeaman 6-2, 6-3 at sixth.
 
Graduate student Jonathan Zhang made it a 6-1 match with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Hirshberg at fourth. Erb grabbed a second point for the Generals with a three-set win over Thomas Yu at first 6-2, 4-6, 1-0 (7). James Yu closed out the match with a come-from-behind win at second over Kistler 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 (10).
 
Hopkins returns to the court on Friday, March 10 as the Blue Jays travel to Hoboken, NJ to take on Stevens. The non-conference contest is slated for a 6:00 pm start.